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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-02-25 18:02:45 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2014-09-13 20:15:59 -0700
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namespaces.7: Clarify use of 'single line' case when writing userns map files
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -724,6 +724,8 @@ The data written to
consists of a single line that maps the writing process's file system user ID
(group ID) in the parent user namespace to a user ID (group ID)
in the user namespace.
+The usual case here is that this single line provides a mapping for user ID
+of the process that created the namespace.
.IP * 3
The process has the
.BR CAP_SETUID